This is a short article, intended as a postscript to “Route Not Taken, Part Four.” It concerns surprising connections between the landowners I researched, starting with Elizabeth Abbott. It also carries on the theme of married women who buy real estate.
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Route Not Taken, 4
By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Featured, Sergeantsville 4 Comments
The east end of Sergeantsville
Properties owned by Abbott, Parks & Cole
Continuing with the saga of the railroad that was never built. You can view the previous three articles by going to the home page, where they appear in the row of featured articles.
Route Not Taken, 3
By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Dilts, Featured, Fisher, Fulper, Gordon, Green, Lake, Moore, Sergeantsville 1 Comment Tags: railroads
This is part three of my series on the proposed rail line to run from Prallsville to Flemington in 1873.
Route Not Taken, part two
By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Dilts, Featured, Higgins, Johnson, Lawshe 5 Comments Tags: land titles, railroads
This is part two of the history of the landowners living along the proposed railroad route that was surveyed for the Delaware Flemington Railroad Company in 1873 and was intended to run from Prallsville to Flemington. (And here is part one.)
The Route Not Taken, part one
By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Featured, Fisher, Hunt, Rake No Comments Tags: railroads
This is part three of my series on the Delaware Flemington Railroad Company. Part One was an article by Egbert T. Bush describing the birth and death of the company. Part Two described the reasons for the company’s failure and how its directors fared afterwards. This article will focus on the route that was planned for the new rail line.1
Kessler & Co.
By Marfy Goodspeed in Case, Delaware Township, Featured 2 Comments Tags: railroads
This is part two of my series on the Delaware Flemington Railroad Company. Part One was Egbert T. Bush’s history of how this company failed. He provided us with lots of information derived from the company papers that had been saved. But so many questions were raised, and not addressed, starting with the people who thought up the idea and promoted the company.
The Railroad That Wasn’t Built
By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, Featured, Flemington, Historians Revisited, Prallsville 1 Comment Tags: railroads
This article by Egbert T. Bush caught my attention because it is reminiscent of PennEast’s attempt to dig a pipeline across Delaware Township and other parts of Hunterdon and Mercer Counties. The big difference here is that many landowners along the proposed route of this railroad supported it because they expected real benefits, whereas PennEast’s pipeline is likely to do more harm than good.
Haines Farm, part two
By Marfy Goodspeed in Bowne Station, Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, Featured, Fulper, Haines, Headquarters, Historians Revisited 2 Comments Tags: maps, roads
This article is a continuation of The Haines Farm, part one.
The Haines farm has a pretty remarkable history, as Mr. Bush wrote:
From the first Isaac Haines the property descended to his son, the second Joseph; from this Joseph to his son, the second Isaac; and from him to his son, the third Joseph, the present owner, to whom it was conveyed by his father and mother, March 10, 1920.
The Haines Farm
By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, East Amwell, Featured, Haines, Historians Revisited, Moore No Comments Tags: early settlers, land titles
This post returns to an article by Egbert T. Bush titled “Old Farms in Old Hunterdon,” published in 1931. I published large parts of this article before, in “The Moore Family,” in 2016. As the introduction to that article mentioned, two families were discussed in Bush’s article, the Moores and the Haines. Having discussed the Moore family at length, it is time to focus on the Haines family and their farm on the east side of Haines Road in East Amwell. This will conclude my study of some (but not all) of the farms located in the original proprietary tract of John Dennis.